Morning journal and courier., 1887-11-21
I'M MUD ANB RAIN.

Vale wins at FOotban-JerseYmen
presented with Goose Egg while
the New Haven Boys are Scoring n
Dozen Points.
The great game has been played and Yale
has won. Princeton, nettled by her defeat
at Cambridge and seeing but faint ray of
hope left her, played with determination to
make good use of that weak chance. She
fought good fight, she played with vim,
and she played we'll, but superior muscle
and science gained the day. Yale's team
was slightly the heavier and her general
work superior to that of Princeton. DR.. No
Cosh's darlings cannot retain the pennant
which they won in 1885 and which they held
over last year because of an undecisive con-
test in Jersey mud.
That big audience that came out in the
terrible down-pour of rain to witness the
twenty-five collegians do their battling in
the mud was variously estimated as to its
numerical strength. Some said six thou
sand and so on to suit the opinions of the
many who tried to make the guess. The
weather showed off many thousand from
the throng, but there was a big enough crowd
on hand to make enough enthusiasm for a
dozen ordinary football games.
Yale and Princeton seem doomed to al
ways play in big rain storm, and when the
game was called at 2 o'clock it simply
poured. The field was mass of mud, re-
iieved here and there by an occasional min
iature lake which formed convenient bath
ing places for twenty-five mud-begrimed5
athletes Princeton, Yale, Harvard and
Columbia were literally represented in
the throng, the last named college
t thnaets minutes minute before O'Clock
the salvos of cheers became shriller than
ever and it was all a Princeton yell, for
eleven yellow and black stockinged and capped
the upper end and Immediately set to work
knocking the leather bag about in the mud.
Princeton was the first to get into the arena.
She came out dogged, determined and with
the championship pennant to defend. Yale
did not keep her waiting. Out from under
the grand stand came little white head on
top of timber little body. Yale sent
cheer skyward. It was Captain Beecher and
behind him his stalwart crew, bareheaded
blue stockinged and canvas backed. They
saw Princeton in the field ahead of them an6
they dashed into the mud like SO many bath
ers going into the surf with plunge. They
rushed across the field. They seemed anx
ious to get at the eleven muscular Jersey
youths and tear their pennant from them.
promptly at = O'CLOCK heI6rGS w. a
Brooks of Harvard called play. Mr.. Fiske o
the same college was the umpire. Durin!
the last half Carter of Yale was disqualified
for foul tackling and Woodruff while making
dash towards the Princeton goal was downed
and attempting to rise was unable to do so
He had injured again the tendon of his LEI
and was carried from the field in great pail
by two stalwart policemen. Princeton seemed
to have the advantage at first and the bal
60n0ornua1u Vala1
goal, but by superior strength and some goo'
running Yale soon forced the ball int
Princetons territory. Wallace made
touchdown, which was not allowed beca us
of foul play. Just thirty-three minutes fror
the commencement of the game Grave
made the first touchdown for Yale. Tn
rushers had made a hole in the Princeton
line through which Graves dashed and pas
sing the backs planted the ball squarely be
hind the goal posts. Bull kicked the goa
with ease. Just twelve minutes after pla
was resumed for the second half Corbin mad
the second touchdown for Yale from whicl
Bull again kicked the goal. The ball was il
Princetons territory most of the time, but u
further scoring was done. After the retire
ment of Carter and Woodruff, Brooks AM
Rhodes took their places and played goo
game. 1t was a fair and square victor,
gained in one of the finest football contest
on record. Cowan played remarkabl
strong game for Princeton, while Beeche1
Graves and Pratt did good work for Val
The teams played in the following order
Ya1e-Rushers, Wallace, Gill, Carter, Corbin
Woodruff, Cross and Pratt; quarterback
Beecher; half backs, Graves and Wurtem
berg; back, Bull. Princeton-Rushers
Hodge, Spier, Irvine, George, Cowan, Chure
half backs, Price and Charming back
Amas